sam girton

Working with Daivd Hostetler > the creative process

David Hostetler calls me to work with him in the creation of his art work from time to time. Recently he and Kate (a friend and model) and I got together to create some prints.

More than just showing the end result of this work, I will walk you though the creative process that David uses. For me the process of collaboration and creation is much more exquisite than the finished work.

Kate arrives

It's Wednesday around noon when Kate arrives at David's house, the three of us share are bottle of wine, catch up some and talk about David's overall concept for the images we are about to make.

David explains his ideas to us

David spends the summer in Nantucket dreaming up ideas to bring to life once he returns to his studio in Athens. With him he brings reference photos and sketches of these ideas that have only been in his head. The three of us review this images and sketches as David talks about what his vision is.

The Results

We made photographs from about 2pm until 6pm. We took a break for dinner and then shot more from 7pm until 11pm. We walked away from the day with three different groups of photos that David will make prints from in the near future. Here are some of the select photos from our day of shooting.

12/8/10 - Photographing Beth

David asked Beth to model for us and we tried the same approach with her that we did with Kate. Here is what we came up with.

12/12/10 - 12/14/10 -- Printing

Master Printer Scott Smith came to Athens to help David print some of the photographs that were made. The three of us spent four days in the studio and made a total of 22 prints. Here are some examples of the work that we made. Each print below is printed 20 x 30 inches using a toner transfer process. The color was then overprinted on top of the image.